Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58b3f3f541916d32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:44:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f7bd7e6432da49ad7ad9bed2f170c2f1 SHA-1: b6924ef65263e3053eebeb9f8801e49c296dff39 SHA-256: 58b3f3f541916d3289b2599b5bf80667f55e7abf16c3c6945217a5782d47aca3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs, such as the one pointing to a compromised WordPress upload, are strong indicators of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://sushigonewildtogo.com/uploads/files/podal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.s4b.nl/upload/files/67360668182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_E69130061EC6A722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.benkorner.nl/admin/library/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasavupabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/56833797210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zniczekowalczyk.com/user_images/file/taboxuxufuzuritire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digbijoynath.in/uploads/userfiles/files/rosuxobatobebipuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-vrignaud.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87636363435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgtofubbq.com/uploads/files/minub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cooperadora.grupocreartel.com/documentos/archivos/90120749684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicalproduct.hu/images/files/40416382070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/71531688548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28983221712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/nizanojifepepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b95unoa536adofm5h.com/userfiles/file/xutiduzelebejodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytshirtcreator.com/app/webroot/files/file/kekopewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corising.info/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210904100759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18941145314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/fuzuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail.teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sobuwulokofoluloxikigiwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobiliariaimperio.com/files/files/notokinitaxixaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chablis-gautherin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muzemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144fa1a37a17---muxinuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksqup2s3h1mmtpm3lmur9v6ehk/52600049388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogallerani.it/userfiles/files/91748250914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=starmaker+downloader+mp3+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD0A 19164 bytes
SHA-256: 9453ab27eadca44d96daa72e9353efac4ed12fd0b718e1f206c5280fa9e2419e
font_01_sfnt_off00010f22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12739 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 9033854aad0bc49817299219fd6f3f64e8cc539f494404d72c0ff8e9a0b00242